76: It is enjoined upon every one of you to engage in some form of occupation,…

It is enjoined upon every one of you to engage in some form of occupation,
such as crafts, trades and the like. We have graciously exalted your
engagement in such work to the rank of worship unto God, the True One. Ponder
ye in your hearts the grace and the blessings of God and render thanks unto Him
at eventide and at dawn. Waste not your time in idleness and sloth. Occupy
yourselves with that which profiteth yourselves and others. Thus hath it been
decreed in this Tablet from whose horizon the day-star of wisdom and utterance
shineth resplendent.

The most despised of men in the sight of God are those who sit idly and
beg. Hold ye fast unto the cord of material means, placing your whole trust in
God, the Provider of all means. When anyone occupieth himself in a craft or
trade, such occupation itself is regarded in the estimation of God as an act of
worship; and this is naught but a token of His infinite and all-pervasive
bounty.